These videos were inspired by Spike Lee’s film Crooklyn.  In the closing credits of that movie you see the Soul Train line dancers getting down to contemporary hip-hop, so I thought I would share with you what I have made.  Enjoy!

First up is “Body Movin’” by the Beastie Boys. I didn’t include any effects on this one because I didn’t know how to at the time. But the edits are pretty good.

The music here is the song “Busy Child” by Crystal Method.” The edits are okay and the effects seem to work.

This one is just a big party. Public Enemy jamming out to “Fight the Power.”

And last is Outkast performing “Bombs Over Baghdad.” Hope you like it.

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No, Mr. Beck, Congress Did Not Print a Bible for the Use of Schools from Chris Rodda on Vimeo.

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I know this is from last week (sorry, been watching the World Cup), but it’s yet another Daily Show clip exposing the sorry state of the American mainstream media. Michael Hastings, with his Rolling Stone piece that led to the downfall of General McChrystal, showed these morons how to do real journalism and the best they can do is whine about how Hastings got so much access.

For more on this I recommend Glenn Greenwald’s excellent post on the subject.

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With the terrible environmental catastrophe currently taking place in the Gulf, I thought some good anti-oil industry propaganda was needed.  So here’s a website I came across with some good political art on the ecological, social, and imperial impact of global oil policy: Art Not Oil: A True Portrait of an Oil Company.  Enjoy.

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These are people accused of witchcraft.  This is a proper Old Testament punishment for them.  Way to go you Evil Hebrew god for condoning such barbarity.

Wow!  Isn’t God wonderful.  I wish he ruled our world.

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Jon Stewart on the recent CNN ratings woes:

CNN and fact-checking:

Hilarious hypocrisy:

Pointless journalism, “just saying…”:

CNN gives up:

Wolf Blitzer and the Olympic torch:

Rick Sanchez falls off the SS Verne Troyer:

Anna Nicole Smith and refrigerators:

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Greenwald begins by noting a paper Sunstein co-wrote in 2008 detailing how government should “employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-’independent’ advocates to ‘cognitively infiltrate‘ online groups and websites — as well as other activist groups — which advocate views that Sunstein deems ‘false conspiracy theories’ about the Government.”

Sunstein’s strategy of using propaganda reflects long-standing liberal ideas in American political culture.  In the early- to mid-20th century, liberal theorists like Harold Lasswell, Edward Bernays, and Walter Lippmann praised the use of propaganda as a means of controlling public opinion, and Sunstein is simply carrying on this tradition.

But Greenwald is most forceful in pointing to the hypocrisy of liberals who are now defending the Obama Administration for committing the very same acts they were so outraged about when done under Bush — particularly the paying of conservatives Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher to promote Bush Administration programs as implicit “independent” experts.  But now Obama’s Administration has been outed doing the same with Jonathan Gruber’s advocacy of the health care reform proposals.

Paul Krugman, for instance, in 2005 angrily lambasted right-wing pundits and policy analysts who received secret, undisclosed payments, and said they lack “intellectual integrity”; he specifically cited the Armstrong Williams case.  Yet the very same Paul Krugman last week attacked Marcy Wheeler for helping to uncover the Gruber payments by accusing her of being “just like the right-wingers with their endless supply of fake scandals.”  What is one key difference?  Unlike Williams and Gallagher, Jonathan Gruber is a Good, Well-Intentioned Person with Good Views — he favors health care — and so massive, undisclosed payments from the same administration he’s defending are dismissed as a “fake scandal.”

I recommend reading the Greenwald article in its entirety.  Don’t miss it:

Greenwald: Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal

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Here’s a great concert from Tom Waits at Atlanta’s Fox Theater in July 2008.  The streaming broadcast is from NPR’s All Things Considered.

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Download here

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Watch the full discussion below:

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